Bratsberg, Bernt

Raaum, Oddbjørn

Røed, Knut

Åslund, Olof

Forslund, Anders

Liljeberg, Linus

Sarvimäki, Matti

(Aalto University School of Business and VATT Institute for Economic Research)

Schultz-Nielsen, Marie Louise

(Rockwool Foundation Research Unit)

Grönqvist, Hans

(Department of Economics, Uppsala University and IFAU)

Niknami, Susan

(SOFI, Stockholm University)

Jakobsen, Kristian Thor

(Den Sociale Kapitalfond Management ApS)

Kaarsen, Nicolai

(Kraka)

Vasiljeva, Kristine

(Kraka)

Ruist, Joakim

(University of Gothenburg)

Andersen, Torben M. (Editor)

Damm, Anna Piil (Author of introduction, etc.)

Åslund, Olof (Author of introduction, etc.)

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Nordic Council of Ministers, Nordic Council of Ministers Secretariat

2017 (English)Book (Other academic)

Abstract [en]

What can we learn from each other and others? Since the mid-eighties the Nordic countries have received a high influx of refugees relative to the population size. Currently these countries receive large numbers of refugees, notably from the Middle East. Existing studies exploiting the rich administrative registers in the Nordic countries have shown that the speed of labour market assimilation of immigrants from non-Western countries in the Nordic welfare states is slow. However, few studies distinguish between refugees and non-refugee immigrants from Non-Western countries.